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Seifer Almasy                               TEN MINUTES AGO                                

     "Hey."

     "Hey Greg."

     "Hey."

     The giant grey man was on his last nerve. His fingers trembled inside his red cloak. His pure-white eyes twitched. His armor trembled slightly.

     "Hey. Greg. Hey. Hey. What are you thinking about right now. Hey." The blonde leaning against the rampart had the tone of a mortician examining a body. "Hey. Greg. Hey. Why don't you talk to me, Greg. Why don't you tell me what's up with your day."

     The giant grey man's fingers trembled again. Next to the giant grey man, a small green chicken clucked. The green chicken looked up at the grey man. The grey man looked down at the green chicken. The pair of them turned to look at the blonde filing his nails and staring at them disinterestedly. The blonde looked up. "Hey."

     A twitch of the fingers.

     "Hey Greg. What are we doing here. Are we looking for movies. You know I'm a real big fan of movies. Have I told you about the Sorceress' Knight? This seems like a great opportunity."

     "Right now."

     "Since you're about to have a fight."

     "Let me tell you all about it scene-by-scene. It'll be great. Are you ready? Great. It opens on a sunset. A male narrator says 'this is my story.' It fades in on a gunblade stabbed into the-"

     "WE ARE HERE," the grey man interrupts, "TO GET PAYBACK. FOR MY DEFEAT. SOME TIME AGO. PROBABLY. I FORGET."

     Cluck.

     The blonde raises an eyebrow. "Oh yeah? You got beat? You? No way. You're totally invincible. Best swordsman ever. No one can hold a candle to you. So anyway, the gentle beating of the waves-"

     "Are you going to stop doing that?" The grey man asked.

     The blonde looked him dead in his empty white eyes. He didn't answer. The grey man scratched the back of his head, awkwardly, then held up a finger. "W-well! I have the perfect plan to draw in my former adversaries! It probably won't go poorly at all! Indeed, I have no doubt it'll go extremely well!"

     "You're gonna yell at them over the radio."

     "I'm going to yell at the- NO! I'M GOING TO SUMMON ENKIDU. THE NOT CHICKEN ONE. WITH ALL THESE CRYSTALS I STOLE AFTER I MANIFESTED."

     "Yeah about that," the blonde said, "How did you do that, anyway." His tone was disinterested. He looked down the massive grey bridge, towards the clouds that hung around its end. The grey man sighed.

     "Look, just go with it, okay? Not everything needs an explanation."

     "Sure. So anyway, the beating waves contrast against the sunset-"

     "GAH! I'VE WATCHED THE MOVIE, SEIFER!" The grey man stomped his feet furiously. "I WATCHED IT WITH YOU."

     "Yeah but," Seifer flipped open his cell phone and starts scrolling down, "You haven't heard my forty-page essay I posted on KnightsAndKnaves.com about the deep and important subtext of every scene and if I don't describe them to you you won't-"

     "GAH! NEVERMIND! LOOK! SUMMON GREEN BIRD FRIEND. FIGHT WARRIORS OF LIGHT AND OTHER INTERLOPERS. STEAL WEAPONS. YES?"

     "Sure. So anyway, the waves catch the orange light-"

     "AUUUUGH"
Seifer Almasy                                  RIGHT NOW                                  

     The giant grey man sits in the center of the bridge. In one right hand is a spear that looks suspiciously similar to a blue-clad spearman's red murder blade, except it's purple. In another right hand is a lump of metal that's much too big for anyone to wield, unless they had spiky blonde hair and serious protagonist syndrome. In the third right hand(???) is an upside-down gunblade. Three cardboard arms extend from a red cape and cowl. His eyes are closed.

     Then the party arrives.

     His eyes fly open.

     "WELL, WELL, WELL! IF IT ISN'T..."

     Pause.

     "YOU GUYS."

     "HOW KIND OF YOU TO ACCEPT MY INVITATION. HA HA HA HA HA! IF YOU DON'T ACT QUICKLY, THE CRYSTALS I'VE GATHERED BENEATH THIS BIG BRIDGE-"

     "You said it," Seifer says, "You lose the bet. Pay up."

     "I'M IN THE MDIDLE OF SPEECHING SEIFER, THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO PULL OUT A THESAURUS."

     "Just saying, you lost."

     "GRAAAAAH! CRYSTALS! PRIMAL! ENKIDU! FIGHT TIME! WE FIGHT! LIKE MEN! AND LADIES! AND LADIES WHO DRESS LIKE MEN! AND MEN WHO DRESS LIKE LADIES! AND ROBOTS! AND ROBOTS WHO DRESS LIKE MEN! AND ROBOTS WHO DRESS LIKE LADIES! AND ROBOTS WHO DRESS LIKE- YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU GET THE POINT."

     He stands. He's...uh, gigantic. He swings the three weapons around, taking up a fighting stance. "FOR GILGAMESH, KING OF HE-"

     "You aren't," Seifer interrupts, "We'll get sued."

     ...

     "Just say the line so we can get this over with."

     "FOR GILGAMESH, IT IS..."

     "MORPHING TIME!!!!!!"

     "Huh?" Gilgamesh stands and rubs where his nose should be, hidden under the red mask. "How was that? It's been a while, but I'm still in top form! Huhuhahahahahahah!"

     Seifer claps, unenthusiastically. Then, "So then Zefar picks up his gunblade and starts walking-"

     "AUUUUUUGH!"
Arkae Zellar Arkae, standing at the other end of the bridge, is taking notes on a small notepad using a comically oversized quill pen.

"Okay... men, ladies, ladies who dress like men, men who dress like ladies, robots, robots who dress like men, robots who dress like ladies, and robots who dress like you get the point."

The tengu takes a moment to read over that list. "I... think I qualify?" She glances down at her outfit, then shrugs, and puts the notepad away.

Arkae approaches at a walking pace, waving over at Seifer. "Hi Seifer! So this is your friend, right? The one who lives in your head? Hi there!"

She waves at Gilgamesh. "I like the extra arms!"

"So I'm not quite sure how this works? I need to fight him to force him back into your head? Or... Something about crystals? I think I missed something in the quest briefing."

Arkae draws her ridiculous-looking c-shaped sword and enters a combat pose.
Arcadia Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... actually neither of those, just has wings like the former would and is partially mechanical.

Coming closer to the overpass to be seen... Nope, it really isn't a bird. Those wings are mechanical, and they're arratched to some kind of armored humanoid feline that is also pretty definately not one of the local cattefolk. She passes over once, then does a fancy loop and roll to come back around a second time and swoop down towards the structure the giant form is standing on. Upon reaching the bridge proper she pulls up and stops, though remains hovering just above the surface instead of landing fully on her feet. "Well now, isn't this interesting..."

Her visor briefly flashes as she looks the towering multi-armed form over, and then the technorganic sphinx strikes a ready pose, still hovering. "You may not be a turbofauna but you look like an interesting fellow all the same!" Some of the arcane conduits in her armor start to glow in ominous readiness. "So I, Arcadia of Agro Alexandria, shall assist ending... uh..."

She trails off a moment. Pauses. Then shrugs and resumes her ready pose.

"Whatever it is you are doing upon this structure!" She glances down and off to the side. "Are these ruins? Or something of importance to the region.. Whatever. Still going to guard them!"
Link A young man clad in a green tunic and cap rides a reddish-brown horse up to Gilgamesh. Link dismounts, beckons Epona away, and then thinks. Well, this guy might be harmless.

Then he thinks about what he said, as Seifer argues otherwise. Steal energy from a star. He's a big guy. The guy next to him looks vaguely Multiversal familiar, and that's not good. And also, dismissing a guy wanting to fight everyone as harmless is very bad. So, Link tilts his head.

"Sorry for calling you harmless. You can probably destroy all the stars you want if you try. I...believe in you?"

And then, he draws his sword, gets into a battle stance, and concentrates. He's waiting for the first attack, so that he can bolster against it.

"But I can't let you."
Ishirou I4 arrives when the party is summoned to fight this newest threat to the multiverse.  This diabolical evil unleashed in this quaint world.  The monstrous motives of something beyond human comprehension.  I4 stares at the creature named GILGAMESH and blinks for a moment.  "Are...are you serious?" He asks.

Everyone else seems to know him, so he shrugs his shoulders.  "So, why are we fighting?  Like, are you robbing a bank, or hurting innocent people, or...?" he asks, not exactly sure what he's doing here.  Well, not that he has any OTHER better ideas...

I4 looks to his flying box with arms, "So scan?  What are we dealing with?  Also, look for crystals?  I guess we shouldn't let him have those?  I mean unless he paid for them..." a pause, "Unless it's a crime to do what he does, can we check in on that?"
Alruna Greengate "Wark!"

Alruna leans forward to pet her chocobo's neck, shushing him. "What's the matter, boy?" she asks, fondly. Her chocobo chitters nervously, stamping his feet nervously on the snowy Coerthan road. He can sense the presence of something amiss, further ahead. Alruna steadies him with a firm hand. Well, if something's amiss, it behooves her to investigate.

And that's how she winds up in the cluster of people confronting Gilgamesh on the voluminous viaduct. She strides forward, clapping Link on the back and drawing her sword alongside him. "I've no idea whom you might be, but if you want a fight, we're happy to give you one!" she calls out simply. /She's/ happy to, anyway.
Sarracenia      All of that noise on the radio disturbs Sarracenia's spa time! It is hard to relax when not one but two loudmouths are talking and broadcasting their horrible music. Although she does at least appreciate the last one somewhat. It's a little harder than the things she usually listens to, but she cannot keep her head from starting to bob as she drives her personal aircraft, the Dyna, toward the location.

     She brings the wooden VTOL into a hover in front of this strange new Gilgamesh and deploys a loud speaker. "Cease and desist at once! You have disturbed the peace and tranquility of the great Princess Sarracenia Sundew! Crown Princess of the Sundew Kingdom! If you can be quiet from this point forward, I will not be forced to hammer you into the ground!" She hits a button, and the wooden aircraft suddenly deploys a number of missile and cannon weapons, all of which are trained on Gilgamesh(FF).
Amelris Belthrone      "ARE YOU FOR REAL!?"

     Amelris Belthrone, Red Mage Miqo'te of Eorzea is stepping on the SIZEABLE SPAN from one end of the bridge, stomping his feet as he walk forward to the ARENA BATTLE that is all very familiar to him BECAUSE HE DID THAT BEFORE.

     "Not only you aren't satisfied with Hildibrand's spear ALL THAT WHILE ago now you actually want to just up and summon a bloody PRIMAL, Gilgagreg!?" A quick glance around to show that there is several people that are taking this quite seriously, which is quite honestly something of a blessing. He stops at the edge, rapier materializing in his hand and gem floating above his other one. "So you want a rematch, old man?! Fine! We're going to get for a rematch!"

     He stops, his demanor changing to somewhat friendly, turning to the Gunblader. "Hey, presumin' you're Seifer. Nice to meetcha."

     Back at Gilgamesh, scowling, ears flatteed against his head. "Come on, Gilgy, let's get waltzin'! Just like old times!"
Touta Konoe     Well this was new, Touta never heard that Siefer had people talking in his head, at least that's what he's lead to believe as he arrives to hear Arkae make that explanation. Actually, who even is Arkae?! He's not familiar with this...Tengu either. But he's here at this bridge now one way or the other to help, though it seems...He's really not the only one. Though when he hears the noise about this odd one's name. It makes him look between him and Seifer a bit and then he utters the words.

    "Seifer...I had no idea you were dealing with so much...I guess I would be cranky all the time too if I had a Gilgamesh in my head all the time too. But uh, if we gotta beat this guy to put him back in your head are you sure you wanna do something like that?"

    Wait, wasn't he here to help with this situation, not create an escalation...
Tetra     Also present here is a lady who dresses like a different lady. The wandering adventurer Tetra--in reality, the Princess Zelda Rhoam Hyrule--has found her way into the world of Eorzea. More specifically, the Big Bridge.

    She arrives on horseback to find a small crowd gathered to fight a large gray man yelling about Primals and Crystals and draining aether from stars. All nonsense to her, but he's blocking the bridge, and yelling some pretty sinister--if ridiculous--things. Plus, Seifer's up there annoying him. So it's an inconvenience, but it might be a fun one.

    She whispers something to her horse, turns it around, and dismounts, giving it a slap on the flank. It gallops off down the road. "QUIT BLOCKING THE ROAD, ARSEHOLE!" she yells, even as she pulls a bow from her back.
Tomoe As many are finding out there is more than one Gilgamesh though this one doesn't seem glad in more gold than some nation's possess. No, it is not the time for that it's time to fight on a large span against Gilgamesh. That's what time it is, after all. So here she was shield and sword at the ready as she comes flying in from on high, red wings pulling up to her back as she falls in with the other people arriving.

"You seriously out to do this or are you just that desperate for a fight? Can't go risking that you are serious, so it's time to dance big man."

She readies her weapon and shield and falls in making ready.

She looks over to I4 and there's a grin on her face she can only guess what he might be able to pull against Gilgamesh today. Then comes Alruna on what would be called a Terror Bird on earth. She also catches sigh of Link and a very angry Sarracenia. Oh, this may not be a good day for Gilgamesh at this rate. Touta arrives followd by TErra whom she has no idea about.

"Well big man shall we get to it?"
Terra      There's the sound of something faintly thrumming as a strange glider comes swooping in, a tall man in bronze armor riding on top of it. The vehicle comes to a halt just a few short steps away from the bridge as the noise of the engine comes to a dead stop, the man taking a moment to dismount as he begins slowly approaching the grey giant.

     There's no reason for Terra to be here, no reason for him to answer. And yet, this man is asking for a fight, and he's more than equipped to handle it.

     There's no words from the armored man, just a grunt as he raises an empty hand outwards. The glider behind him disappearing in blocks of light as a strange key-shaped blade appears in the knight's hand in an almost identical fashion.

     "When you're ready. Come."

     Terra's voice is flat. Some might even say stoic, but that would imply he has any emotions to hide.
Staren     Seifer wants to annoy this guy and that kind of sets the tone: Flippant, but acknowledging the inevitabiltiy of a fight.

    Staren flies in in his usual armor, white futuristic plate, and sets up to snipe with a bipod about four thousand feet away. He keeps talking over the radio, trying to maintain the tone but also genuinely curious about just what danger THIS Gilgamesh poses. It takes AWHILE to drag that explanation out of Amelris, but it does sound Pretty Bad.

    Fortunately that means Staren has awhile to set up the perfect sniper shot. It's a bit easier with lasers -- light goes in a straight line and doesn't get blown off-course unless things are very bad.

    He sights Gilgamesh's head in the crosshairs and just waits for the fight to start. You never know, with... what are there, eleven other fighters here? maybe Gilgamesh won't even SEE a sniper shot coming.

    Nah, Staren's never that lucky. But he can hope.
Seifer Almasy      "This is my friend," Seifer says to Arkae in the tone of someone reciting a book report in front of a class that says only 'this book was written in 1982' because all the books anyone ever wants you to read are from at least forty years before the present, and which somewhere includes the phrase. 'I really liked this book because it was really good and that's my report thank you.' He is exactly that enthusiastic.

     The big grey man strikes a stance when Arkae compliments him. "You should fight me because I am THE GREATEST WARRIOR IN THE MULTIVERSE! I am a PEERLESS and INCONQUERABLE GOLDE-"

     "Nope."

     "GOLDEN-HEARTED RAKE, SEIFER! GOLDEN-HEARTED RAKE!!!!"

     "Uh-huh. So anyway, Zefar, gunblade on his shoulder, begins walking to what would one day be Galbadia-"

     Gilgamesh tunes him out as Arcadia arrives. "I'm SUMMONING MY BEST FRIEND."

     Bakaw.

     "MY OTHER BEST FRIEND, ENKIDU. I CAN HAVE TWO BEST FRIENDS. I HAVE THREE!"

     "Aw," Seifer says dryly, "That's sweet that you think I'm your best friend."

     "YOU ARE MY BEST FRIEND. NOW SHUT UP!"

     "Zefar's journey is going to be a long one, you can tell from the look in his eyes, the determined and tired-"

     Gilgamesh's cardboard arms rustle. Anyone can tell he has three other arms tucked under his cape to look cool. "It's a big bridge. It's important to the region! It's a hub of trade! A road that goes between nations! And I, the INCOMPARABLE Gilgamesh, have claimed it for my own!"

     Seifer says, "His eyes shine with renewed determination as he walks over to a beautiful woman. She's in her twenties, in a gown that shows her substa-"

     Gilgamesh looks at Link. He squints. Then he says, "It's fine, it's fine! I appreciate your FAITH! BECAUSE PRIMALS RUN OFF FAITH! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! YOU FOOL, YOU'VE FALLEN INTO MY NEFARIOUS-"

     "Improvised," Seifer says, "-ntial clea-"

     "-TRAP! YOU'LL MAKE ENKIDU ALL THE MORE POWERFUL!"
Seifer Almasy Gilgamesh stamps his feet excitedly. Sarracenia comes bearing cannons and airships, and the big grey man's hands twitch under his robe. Now, that was *exciting*. "HUHUHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's right, that's right! I'm incredible! You won't be able to defeat me with such *measly, non-player character* weapons! I'm a REAL RAID BOSS! You need AT LEAST EIGHT PROTAGONISTS! But this time..."

     He starts counting. Seifer continues, "-on her knees, her hands on her face, her red hair rolling down her shoulders. She's crying. Zefar holds out a hand-"

     "...I HAVE NEW MECHANICS! YOU HEAR THAT, WARRIOR OF LIGHT?" Gilgamesh points dramatically at Amelris. "THE GREG YOU FOUGHT BEFORE IS GONE! I mean, not, not *gone*, I'm that Greg, you fought me before, I'm just...you know, I'm more serious this time. I'm upgraded. I'm Greg EX Kai. I have a command horn, I guess. And I'm three times faster. Wait, no. Hang on."

     "And...uh..."

     "-he pulls her up to her feet and says," Seifer carries on, holding up a hand to Touta and Amelris, but clearly unwilling to stop annoying Gilgamesh, "'My lady. This isn't where our story ends.' She wipes away her tears, and-"

     Tetra comes racing in with her bow, and Tomoe pulls out her weapon and shield. Greg bristles.

     "Hehehe. That's right, that's right! Give me all your strength, warriors of this Multiverse! Show me all the powers of the Interdimensional Rift! I, Gilgamesh, am a force to be reckoned with!"

     "She smiles at him and squeezes his hand. 'Zefar...thank you. For supporting me all this time.' We pan out-" Seifer says, not even looking at his phone - he's reciting this from memory. He flicks the music over to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikP38UAdhgg boredly.

     Terra arrives. Gilgamesh's face, behind the mask, spreads in a grin. "NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT! SPIRITED! I LIKE IT, YOUNG MAN! YOUNG...people. I like it. This is going to be...GILGARIFFIC!"

     "That's my thing now. I own that. I took it."

     Seifer, lazily, says, "'My lady,' the knight says, his coat blowing in the sudden breeze as feathers rain down from the sky, 'I will always be by your side-'"
Seifer Almasy      "SO ANYWAY," Gilgamesh says, straightening. Then he throws his weapons straight up in the air. "Let's see. I think we'll call this..."

                            GILGAMESH - EXTREME                            

     And then the weapons rain down from on high.

     They stick in the ground. They come down all over the place, smashing into the bridge. Anyone unlucky enough to be caught in the blade rain is going to be very unhappy in the morning - but the real problem is that the minute they're up, Gilgamesh is running forward, grabbing one off the ground and swinging it forward. Then he discards it, grabbing another. Then another. One of them he flings at Staren. A heavy-looking Buster Sword he flings at Sarracenia's ship to cleave off the windmill.

     He may be a loudmouthed idiot but he is a *dangerous* loudmouthed idiot.

     "She tightens her grip on his hand-"

     "SEIFER," Gilgamesh says in the middle of a whirlwind spin with a pair of extremely, overly long katanas, "DO YOU MIND."

     "Oh, sorry. I'll start again. It opens on a sunset, with a gunblade crammed into the ground-"

     "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Amelris Belthrone      Something strike deep into Amelris' heart. Just four words is enough to make all Warrior of Light clutch their heart in terror, their imagination swirling with vision of horror, chaos and harm.

     'I have new Mechanics!'

     There's a moment of his tail flicking uncertainly, his ears fluttering in surprise but his eyes remains of steel, gritting and baring his sharp teeth. "I don't care, Greg!" Amelris calls out, raising his rapier and pointing it. "We're going to do this LIVE like last time! EVERYONE, ATTACK!"

     The rain of blades slams down as he moves forward, a jagged katana scratching down along his thigh as he rolls down, then kicks himself up in the air.

     "VERFIRE!" The Red Mage calls out, swirling his blade in his hand into a spiral and kicking off a large fireball over at the giant Gray man, sliding forward on the ground when he lands. His hand squeezes his gem, thrusting it forward.

     "VERAERO!" A gust of wind lurches forward, blasting into the flame to disperse it and blowing the Red Mage backward, keeping himself mobile.

     "EVERYONE! Stay out of the bad!" The Crimson Duelist calls out, standing up to his feet. "He can do things like toss bombs, missiles and /BE A HUGE DAMN DIRTY SWINDELING TRICKSTER/." That last bit was more snarled over at Gilgamesh. Someone's still mad about /something.
Staren     "Oh sh--" Staren sees the sword coming for him and leans out of the way. It grazes him, knocking him backward and gouging into his armor as it passes. There's the clinking of glass as he falls against the satchel of potions and oils Arkae left him. He's already perused them and his computer has memorized which is in which location, so without looking he's able to grab two vials, pouring oil on the gouge (it starts to close up) and another oil on his rifle, magically improving its accuracy and damage!

    He takes the shot, three intense laser pulses lance along the COLOSSAL SPAN to impart their tremendous energy into, ideally, Greg's head!

    Then Staren picks up his rifle and his potions and starts flying closer, orange energy wings buzzing behind his back, because he's not sure he wants to deal with whatever Gilgamesh's response to repeated sniping would be.
Ishirou After some trying to figure out what is going on, finding out that Primals are illegal, but that perhaps they are also being unfairly persecuted, and then finding out that they're kinda like nullborn.  "Oh ok, I get it now, they're like Nullborn.  Well, strange man in red, I am Inspecter four, model 31C, or I4 for short.  My friends call me Foureyes!"

"I have no idea why you are doing what you are doing, besides prevenge, which is /also a crime/, but summoning things that devour the world is also /super illegal/.  I am now forced to activate termination protocol based on Indus laws, as well as article four, paragraph 64, subsection 1984 of the PHANTOM bilaws."

"In other words, you are very under arrest, and if you resist I am authorized to use lethal force! So com-"

Then swords.  I4 tries to backflip out of the way, but unfortunately, the blades are ever so faster.  Slashing through his defenses but not quite as solid of a hit as he might have liked.  Stopping himself with a slide, he stares forward.  

"You have chosen lethal force, I am sorry, you seem like a nice guy," he says, with a cough, and then asks Seifer to start over, because he can hear both the story and carry out a police action.  In fact, the black box hovers over to Seifer to record.

-Greetings, I am Type 6X Perceptive-Support Drone, you may refer to me as POD.  I will record this story, for later review.  I may also be needed to support my partner in defensive and offensive actions against your friend.-

Meanwhile, I4 goes on the offensive, a blade comes to his hand, like a rapier, and he dashes in.  He aims a series of quick slashes to Gregamesh, before flipping back and unleashing a barrage of high powered fireblasts from his hand.  

"POD activate scanning mode.  Let's see what we're working with!"
Arcadia See this is exactly why Arcadia remained hovering, she's ready to go at a moment's notice.

She zips backwards as weapons start falling from the sky, then zigzags off to the side to avoid several more. Large numbers of plummeting projectiles, this is just like back home on the Line! With her speed and agility the sphinx has little issue with weaving through the hail of blades.

No, it's when Gilgamesh abruptly grabs one and swings with it, and then throws it away that catch's her off-guard. Because he discarding one of them right into her path! Hard to tell if it's by dumb luck or dumb skill.

Fortunately her hyperglass visor allows her to see perfectly even when moving at extreme speed and Arcadia barely pulls up and back in time to spread her wings and brake to keep from getting skewered. There's a few visible sparks and flickering as the edge of the discarded sword skims the protective wards of her armor and puts a dent in her side.

"If the bridge is of economic importance and cultural signifigance then no one man -- or whatever you are -- can lay claim to it!", the sphinx snaps as she twirls away from the sword to get her focus back on Gilgagreg or whatever he was called. "As a Guardian of wonders and relics, I shall evict you from it!"

Her wings flare and shimmer as Arcadia kicks herself backwards, though just high enough to get a proper angle on the fight without actually getting out of combat range. "You want to play with projectile rain? Fine!"

Magic rings briefly spin around her arms, and then Arcadia thrusts them forward. "MYSTIC GATLING!"

Dozens and dozens of arcane shots erupt from around her arms in rapid firing streams, the clusters leaving very little room between them for a normal person to try and slip through. A large being like Gilgamesh, hopefully even less so.
Tetra     Tetra nocks an arrow. A quick gesture with a finger from her bowstring hand, and the head of the arrow flashes into a blaze. She's about to draw it back when the rain of weapons catches her by surprise; she tries to dodge, but a sword slashes along her back, cutting through her armor. "Gah!" It doesn't cut through her skin, thankfully.

    The gray fucker starts yelling about fighting up close--so Tetra takes a leap as the air clears. Her arrow roars as the air races around it; she draws back the string and releases. Then does so again as she falls toward Gilgamesh, her hand almost a blur as she nocks, draws, and releases a second flaming arrow at the many-armed swordsman. She lands in front of him, bow on her back, a single-edged blade with a swordcatch barb at the hilt readied in her hands.
Sarracenia      Weapons rain down! Sarracenia is surprised to find that this Gilgamesh seems almost as dangerous as the real (as far as she's concerned) Gilgamesh! Even if he is much less dazzling to look at and much less refined. The Dyna is turned into a flying pincushion and heads toward the ground, already catching fire. So...

     ...Sarracenia steers it right toward Gilgamesh! Kamikaze-style! She fires all its weapons as she goes down, and leaps from the cockpit at the last second. Rockets, cannonballs, missiles, and Bob-ombs all seek to explode against Gilgamesh before the Dyna itself hits and explodes like one of her Bonzai Bills! A rapid series of explosions that sound more like machine gun fire, followed by one last explosion that leaves a small but noticable mushroom cloud!

     Sarracenia herself lands a short distance away from Gilgamesh, holding an arm where one of those weapons pierced right through the Dyna and got her. The black leather of her battle dress is glistening with redness, so she pulls a green mushroom from her purse to staunch the bleeding. "After I deal with you, Fake Gilgamesh, I will be dealing with your friend there! Seriously, who recites a movie script in the middle of a battle?!"
Arkae Zellar Arkae listens politely to Gilgamesh's opening monologue, bouncing on the balls of her feet idly every few seconds in what would be an idle animation cycle if this was a video game, but since this isn't a video game it's probably just some minor undiagnosed ADHD.

"Hey, you're not supposed to throw away your - oh-"

The tengu gets smacked hard, being sent tumbling across the ground, losing her grip on her sword momentarily in the process. "Ow, okay... he hits pretty hard... not holding back his punches, either."

"I mean his swords. Though with six arms... probably punches, too."

The tengu reaches into her bag of holding, feeling around. "He's pretty fast too... gotta give myself a boost..." Staren got a big chunk of her potion cache earlier... she's a little low on options. Haste? No. Healing? Always useful, but not the time yet. Goodberry? Delicious, but not useful yet either...

Her fingers close around the neck of a random vial, and she pulls it out, glancing at what she's written on the label. "Oh."

"Oh, this will work *just fine*."

The tengu grabs her sword from the ground with one hand and starts running at Gilgamesh, popping the cork on her option with her other hand. "Hey! Hey, Gilgamesh!"

"For Arkae..."

                              "IT'S SURFIN' TIME!"                              

The tengu chugs, tossing the empty potion vial over her shoulder carelessly, and the effects are nearly instantaneous. Somehow, a wave of magical water bubbles up from the bridge tiles beneath her feet, and whisks her off directly towards Gilgamesh at high speed.

"HANG TEN!" she yells, leaning into a corner to strafe around him and hack at his ankles as she passes.
Alruna Greengate Alruna fearlessly runs forward - into a rain of swords. She's thrown off her charge by some giant slab of wrought iron smashing into her shoulder and leaving a sizable dent in her pauldron. It also staggers her, getting her a giant katana across her shield that throws her against one of the bridge's merlons with a solid thud.

Alruna laughs incredulously, pulling herself up. "You really are a perfect match for Hildibrand." she says, setting herself. With a guttural warcry she leaps into the fray again, leading with a shield bash before scraping her sword along the flagstones, swinging it up in an aether-amplified slash!
Link As Gilgamesh tells Link he just put faith into Enkidu, Link tilts his head, thinks about it, and nods. "Okay. Then I'll make sure you can't summon...Enkidu."

As the sword rain comes on down, Link grabs his shield and moves to block swords. They impact with his shield, sending force vibrating back through his body, as Gilgamesh's blade comes slashing into him. Link is cut decently, sent reeling back, and inhales. Exhales.

The sword idiot only knows one thing. The clash of steel.

Link charges forward, jumps, and moves to plunge the blade straight into Gilgamesh's stomach, trying to wound him as heavily as possible as quickly as possible. He'll be fine.

Right?
Tomoe Seifer has provided some pretty interesting music here. She's taking it seriously enough to not hold back much if at all. I mean this is Gilgamesh he's not fleeing from a large group of elites like this? He's got to have some power behind his buffoonery and Almelsi is doing some calling.

"I get you thanks for the warning."

This warning does help as Tomoe does not end up pinned to the ground as weapons rain down from on hight part of her wants to start shoving weapons into her inventory but that can wait.

She's able to avoid those but it sets Gil up to score a hit on her force her back as he rampages. Tomoe will flip, yes flip over several of the weapon lands on the ground and just rush at Gilgamesh.

"Not done with you yet!"

She's still got her wings out and puts them to use as she will leap up, using them to say up longer and try to do a big slice on Gil before she comes back down.

"Come on then let's see what you CAN DO!"
Terra      Various weapons rain down from the sky, which prompts Terra to brace himself for impact by holding a hand against his blade for added support, for what good it'll do. The various blades and spears come crashing down, slamming against his armored body.

     The awful sound of creaking metal and bones fill the air as the Nobody pushes against it, but he endures, making a final push on the last falling weapon to swat it away out right.

     There's a path clear for retaliation now, a path that Terra doesn't delay for a moment to cease. The sound of armor plates jingling fill the air as he bursts into a full sprint towards Gilgamesh, leaping high into the air as he firmly clasps the hilt of his 'sword' with both fists.

     Despite the running start, Terra falls a quite a few feet short of the grey giant, his blade sinking into the bridge below with a metallic thunk. There's a brief delay where nothing happens, almost as if they errored, before a series of rock spires erupt from the ground, starting at a slow pace before picking up speed and racing towards Gilgamesh.
Touta Konoe     So truth be told, he wasn't expecting Greg to come out swinging so hard in the beginning, or perhaps it's just unfortunate that where Touta was that he ended up taking the hardest pelting of the sword rain. The sound news is that well... "This is just like last tiiiiiiime!!!"

    An unfond memory of another person named Gilgamesh who pelted a group with swords. Touta gets shishkabab'd by this pelting rain and as Gil ends up picking up swords off the ground to go after Sarra and Staren. Usually even if Touta's annoyed. He likes to think he keeps himself very collected in a fight. There are very few people that have made him just want to deck them in the chin right from the beginning. Though as he dislodges himself from the blades, pulling all of them at and letting his body begin to slowly seal up the holes that make him look like 'swiss cheese a la vampire'. He kinda wants to annoy Greg just as much as another certain individual had done to him the last time. But how??? HOW!?!?!?!

    Then he realizes something and just smiles. "Kurobo...I need your power." He whispers to the sword off-handedly and it sounds like...The sword doesn't like where this is going, but seemed resigned to it.

    As the others prepare there attacks Touta waits for an opening, any kind for him to prepare his assault...On Greg's ears. Listening to Seifer he speaks with words that should not be spoken...In unison with his blade,

    "His blade gets raised above his head planning to slash him from behind with his ultimate battle-cry that he shouts in unison with Seifer...AND KUROBO?!??!

    "He pulls her up to her feet! She wipes away her tears, smiles at him, and squeezes his hand! 'Zefar...thank you! For supporting me all this time!' The knight says, 'My lady,' his coat blowing in the sudden breeze as feathers rain down from the sky, 'I will always be by your side!'"

    "He pulls her up to her feet! She wipes away her tears, smiles at him, and squeezes his hand! 'Zefar...thank you! For supporting me all this time!' The knight says, 'My lady,' his coat blowing in the sudden breeze as feathers rain down from the sky, 'I will always be by your side!'

    Seifer, Touta, and even the sword Kurobo all speak the lines in unison of the Sorceress knight. They might not know it as well as Seifer, but apparently they can parrot him enough to keep in time. And what's more annoying than one person saying things you don't enjoy? THREE! And with his attention now drawn to him, Touta would use his Shundo to become a blur as the others had already let loose their attacks. An attempt to get behind Greg amongst the confusion and bring his gravity sword down upon Greg's back with the utmost force that one would be surprised to take in this situation. The two singing their warcry as they striked.

    "The knight says, 'My lady,' his coat blowing in the sudden breeze as feathers rain down from the sky, 'I will always be by your side!' We pan out over the ruins of a submerged city, and the words drawn in the air, as if by quill, read, THE SORCERESS'S KNIGHT!'"

    "The knight says, 'My lady,' his coat blowing in the sudden breeze as feathers rain down from the sky, 'I will always be by your side!' We pan out over the ruins of a submerged city, and the words drawn in the air, as if by quill, read, THE SORCERESS'S KNIGHT!'"
Seifer Almasy      "NICE TO MEET YOU," Gilgamesh says as he passes I4, one of the many blades flashing around him. Seifer holds up a hand at the drone, but doesn't talk yet. The POD activates scanning mode, and gets-

     Well.

     Absolute goddamn nonsense.

     Gilgamesh is a Primal? A Demon? A King? A Spirit? All Of The Above? It's some kind of mad jumble stacked higher than a D&D babby's first munchkin part-ogre part-demon part-angel rogue.

     Rogues are a bitch class and level adjustment is the worst.

     I4 charges in with a rapier. Gilgamesh matches him swing for swing, but fighting literally everybody with three hands tied inside his cloak is kind of rough - I4 gets some solid hits in. Gilgamesh doesn't bleed, exactly - chunks of him just get torn away, white glowy gashes.

     "So then," Seifer continues as Gilgamesh tries to bring up another block and kick I4 away with his foot, "The scene transitions back a couple years. The prime minister of a long-gone country, Elthane, stands in front of his desk-"

     Staren fires a pulse of energy past Seifer and POD's head, aimed right for Gilgamesh's. The shot hits Gilgamesh right in the skull, passing right through, an explosion of grey out the other side. Gilgamesh leans forward and stares at Staren from afar. His eyes light up.

     "ENKIDU!" He points.

     The green chicken lunges at Staren.

     From out of nowhere, a swarm of green chickens comes storming at Staren, pecking, biting, clawing, and slashing. Gilgamesh's head is already reforming. "THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR CHEATING IN A SWORDFIGHT, YOU LOSER!"

     "-looking ready to hit somebody," Seifer says, "Like he's gonna just punch someone in the face at any minute. His aides are trembling-"

     Arcadia opens fire. It's a rain of arcane shots, a hailstorm of Bullet Hell. And, surprisingly enough, the huge Gilgamesh *is* in fact mobile enough to avoid a whole lot of it. What he doesn't dodge, he bounces away with a blade, cleaving through bullets and slicing through bolts with glimmering katanas. What shots do hit him scratch against his skin, carving white lines into his body. Gilgamesh snaps his fingers and holds up a free hand. "ROCKET PUNCH! GET ON DOWN HERE!"

     His fist shoots outwards for Arcadia, impossibly. It literally disconnected, a storm of light behind it as it goes to grab her and drag her down onto the battlefield.

     "-and with good reason. It's war. His fists are clenched tight. He looks down at his desk. The camera swirls in on the paper-"
Seifer Almasy      Tetra nails Gilgamesh rignt in the shoulder, distracted as he is with Arcadia. Flames lick at his cape. He yelps, loudly, running around comedically. Unfortunately, he's also FIFTEEN-ISH FEET TALL, and may indeed just plow into Tetra with full force, since she landed right in front of him.

     "-to see a declaration. It's from the King of Luthiox. It's a long and flowing letter, and it's a declaration of war against Elthane. We get a flickering shot of Luthiox imposed out the Prime Minister's window, slowly growing with industrial might across the pristine and quiet pastoral Elthane and its etruscan architecture-"

     It's only because Gilgamesh is running around that he doesn't get *plowed* straight into by Arkae. It's surely not on purpose; her wave smashes into him, and puts him out, as she carves into him. His reaction time is remarkable - he's already swinging around into a parry, and his foot comes up to meet her and send her flying in a single, fearsome kick.

     "-and the Prime Minister swallows. He knows he has no hope. We cut to the training grounds, where the soldiers of Elthane are all readying themselves, swinging swords and practicing with bows-"

     Alruna shield-bashes him, and knocks him off-balance. He stumbles backwards, reeling, his arms swinging comedically to balance himself (with only one side. He's committed to that gimmick). As he does so, his foot hooks under her shield, and his eyes flash maliciously. "HAH! GOTCHA! JUMP!"

     Gilgamesh goes straight into the sky. Alruna might be coming back down with him.

     "There's a young man in his teens, whom we are told is called Yuka. Yuka is a new Elthane Knight, we hear from the chatter, the son of a prominent businessman who'll probably be undrafted soon-"

     As Gilgamesh hits the ground, Link stabs him in the stomach. He looks down. He looks up at Link. "Well you don't have to be such a jerk about it."

     And then a massive arm comes around to clothesline Link in the face.

     "-but Yuka's eyes are resolute. He sits down at the table and pulls out a picture. It's time for lunch. A man sits down next to him and looks over at the picture. 'Woah,' he says, 'That your girl?'-"

     Terra comes swinging in as Gilgamesh finishes his own clothesline. The rock spires come shooting. Gilgamesh grabs swords out of the ground, hurling them upwards into the rocks, and spinning them at Terra furiously. In the process, Tomoe's own slice is somehow parried, and the spinning blade redirects up into her face. On purpose? Or accident?

     "Yuka looks down and touches her face. 'Yeah,' he says, 'Her name is Kaya.' She looks a great deal like the Sorceress, though not identically. Her figure is different, and her eyes are slightly different. The implication is-"
Seifer Almasy      Amelris's spell-assault joins with Terra's own, but with Gilgamesh as distracted as he is, this one finds much better purchase. The flame and the wind smash into Greg, again sending him wobbling comedically. "Hey, hey, hey! Cut that out! I remember you now! You're THOSE jerks! Warriors of LAME!"

     Gilgamesh grabs a huge katana and brings it up into Amelris as he tries to backflip away. An interruption attack?! He's learned some new tricks.

     "-that Yuka's girl is the Sorceress's sister. Indeed, we flash cut to Kaya and the Sorceress, whose name is Ayaka, sitting in a room, looking at each other. Kaya-"

     Sarracenia unleashes a remarkable blast on the big bridge, raining down fire all over the place. Seifer just kinda parries all of it, cleaving through the explosions with Hyperion over his shoulder, not even looking at them. "-is wringing her hands and biting her lip. 'Ayaka,' she says, 'I know. I know you have a responsibility, or, you think you do. But you know what they'll do. If they find out you have Hyne's power'-"

     Gilgamesh, meanwhile, weathers the storm as best he can - which it turns out is pretty good because he's still standing afterwards, though he looks tattered and blasted. He's already starting to clean himself up. His eyes flash at Sarracenia. "Fake?"

     "FAKE?"

     He roars. He picks up a massive sword in all three hands - a sword much too big for anything - and raises it over his head. "I'LL SHOW YOU A FAKE, FAKE PRINCESS! HERE! TAKE THIS! DRAGONFLAYER!"

     The huge sword comes smashing down hard enough to crack the landscape.

     "Ayaka looks sadly at her sister. She looks down at her lap. 'I know. But I have to. The power of Hyne is meant to be used, not hidden. And if I do nothing, Elthane will fall, and Luthiox will rule this continent. I cannot allow my people to suffer under their rule. They will pillage our land-"

     "SHUT UP!" Gilgamesh roars at both Seifer and Touta, as the gravity sword crashes on his head. Little stars pop up, whirling about his skull. He stumbles around again, for the third time, then shakes himself free. Gilgamesh surges forward, with surprising strength, discarding the Dragonflayer in favor of grabbing Touta's sword with his bare hands (woah) and cramming it into Touta's face hilt-first. "ONE OF YOU IS BAD ENOUGH!"
Ishirou The POD does not need to be spoken to, nor does it consider Seifer rude for not speaking to it.  It's just simply going to sit there and record the story.  Also scan Greg, who seems to be giving a lot of nonsense.  This causes the black box to make a humming sound before speaking back to I4.

-I appear to be getting conflicting information.  What can be determined is that it is some sort of magical based entity, as opposed to flesh and blood.-

Meanwhile, I4 gets punted away from Gilgamesh, landing gracefully on his feet.  Luckily he had control of the momentum from that.  "Hello!  Please stop doing crimes, ok?  Also sorry for being rude and not speaking to you when I first got here, I was trying to figure out what was going on and so many people were talking," I4 says cheerfully.

Stabbing his rapier into the ground, he holds his hands at Gregamesh, and fires tiny balls of energy at him.  As they hit, they seem to fill up a gauge above Gil, which once it fills up initiates a MINI-GAME.  I4 is a triangle, and Gil runs the board, but I4 is shooting important parts of Greg.

Should I4 be successful, Gil might feel his entire body twist in painful ways as magical energy is suddenly burned off.
Arkae Zellar Potion of stamina! *CHUG!* Potion of stoneskin! *CHUG!* Potion of getting kicked in the head! *BOOT!*

Oh wait that last one wasn't a potion. It was a foot.

Even as Arkae goes flying, she's reaching for more potions and trying to quaff them all at once. She tumbles across the damp ground, empty vials crunching beneath her as she lands, and takes a moment to get up to her feet.

Her next actions are very deliberate. She gets to her feet slowly and reaches for a special vial in her bag, carefully uncorking it and pouring it over her sword. Unlike most of her potions that come in a variety of obnoxiously glowing primary colors, the contents of this vial are entirely clear.

And then she surges forward at Gilgamesh again, swinging her sword. There's no dramatics, no theatrics, nothing that might attract his attention.

And if she connects, he might not even feel the cut, due to the local anesthetic in the poison she coated her blade in.

That is, he might not feel it... yet.
Link Link plunges his blade into Gilgamesh. He tries to draw it out.

Gilgamesh grabs him by the face. He clotheslines Link, smashing him /hard/ into the ground, right as Link is pulling the sword. On the body of a pwoerful creature, the blade snaps.

Link hits, hard. His first sword, broken. Link staggers up, holding a half-working sword, and turns to Gilgamesh. He should keep fighting, even though his bones ache from that blow.

"...I'm sorry. My sword is broken, and it'd be rude to use one of yours. I...I must bow out." Link takes a step back, several steps back, and whistles. Epona comes riding forward. Link leaps on top, and rides off.

He feels shame. He needs to find the Master Sword.
Tetra     As Tetra alights in front of Gilgamesh, her arrows do their work. The girl's eyes widen as he starts to flail and charge toward her, realizing panic and close quarters don't exactly MIX well. Thinking fast, she smoothly ducks and slides between Gilgamesh's legs--and promptly panics a little as she sees Staren assaulted by angry chickens.

    "Staren, RUN!" she calls out. "They say an angry cucco swarm can skeletonize a cow in ten seconds flat!"

    Panic aside, she's still sliding behind the massive gray man. She turns over and fires three arrows at once, all directly at his ass. No fire, no gimmicks. Just arrows.

    Right in the ass.
Alruna Greengate What th-

Alruna is yanked off the ground by Gilgamesh's foot. "HOW?" Alruna yells as she gets yeeted into the sky with Greg.

The paladin tumbles through the air, falling slower than he does because physics have a lax relationship with absurd stunts like this. The huge grey man lands back on the bridge first. High above, Alruna twists and turns, trying to face downwards. Her armour is just too constricting though... Wait.

*swoooorrrsh!*

Blue light explodes around Alruna as she uses one of the handiest magic tricks she's ever learned. Her heavy plate armour ripples into aether, replaced by a lighter, leather outfit that's much more flexible. Her sword and shield evaporate as well, to be replaced by a heavy spear. The tip of the spearblade glints as she orients herself, bracing the spear as she angles herself towards the center of attention on the bridge. The wind whips her face, making Alruna squint.

She's not a dragoon (yet). She hasn't even /seen/ this technique executed before, so she can only hope it'll work out. Her incredulous laugh is drowned out by the clashes of ringing steel below.
Staren     Staren was flying closer to try and play fair, and for his trouble he gets a chicken thrown at him.

    And then suddenly, out of nowhere, a swarm of chickens is attacking him."

    "NOT AGAIN!"

    He reverses course, flying back away from Gilgamesh and flails for a second or two, but... the chickens are unable to find lasting purchase as he aerobatically weaves through them. They peck and claw at his armor and forcefield and leave it all scratched up, just from sheer volume, but... each Enkuccoo that strikes him is shocked, zapped by a lethal (for a chicken, anyay) jolt of electricity. And then his forcefield goes up just as a couple of minimissiles detonate outside it, cooking the air and, hopefully, the swarm of Enkuccoos!

    For a moment it looks like Staren exploded. But when the fire fades, he's still there.

    Hopefully surrounded by fried chicken.
Arcadia Rocket punches aren't exactly anything new to Arcadia either. Well, in so far as having them shot at her. It just slams into the protective field of her armor. Except that does enough damage to make it cycle off.

And then the disembodied hand -grabs- here, that's what gets past the sphinx's guard. Arcadia emits a very feline-like yowl as the flying limb literally yanks her out of the air and, like some giant hand boss fight, throws her down at the bridge! She twists in the air, trying to stablize herself, but can't quite get back into flight before there is an audibe *whud* and a bunch of dust kicked up from the material being pulverized by the impact.

She was, however, at least cat enough to land on her feet, standing up and shaking herself off as the dust settles around her.

And then she throws her head back and -laughs-. It's the kind of laughter you'd expect to hear from a thrillseeker that just got their big rush despite how much it hurt -- Which is pretty much what happened.

"My my, you -are- a challenge. But if you think that is the only way I have to fight." Her tail lashes as she strikes a pose, curling her fingers to put her claws on display as they shimmer. "You have another thing coming!"

Never let it be said that for all her flying firepower, Arcadia is afraid to get into a physical brawl. The astral thrusters on her back and legs flare to life, hurtling her into the fight like dash boosters. It's not her ultimate speed, but it's still fast enough to be a blurr, and every time she speeds past Gilgagreg she lashes out with her claws. Again and again, to the point it's hard to tell just how many times she's ripped past him with high speed slashes!
Amelris Belthrone      The massive katana swings upward, the wind blowing off against the back flipping Miqo'te. His clothes and cape billows against the aftermath of the swing. Say what you want about Gilgamesh, he IS still a mighty fighter even if he is overwhelmingly silly. Mighty enough that even if the Red Mage manages to back flip away without harm inflicted, there is still the annoying matter that the wind blow back wringe his fancy, feathered hat away from his head to get stuck at the edge of the Katana.

     Amelris notices when he lands, his yellow furred ears wriggling as he looks up past his roped hair, notice where his hat is at, then scowl.

     "That's /Warrior of Light/ to YOU, you transdimensional fleamarket lurker!!" Amelris calls out, rapier swung down as he leans forward, getting into a dashing position.

     The Red Mage blurrs forward, attempting to slam up at the katana that he swung at him moments earlier, leaping up to grab it by the non-cutting side and leaping himself upward on the edge of the blade, standing on it precariously.

     "Hup! Hup hup!" Amelris calls, retriving his hat and sliding DOWN the blade, rapier down first to DIVE it in direction of Gilgamesh' hand.

     Right between the index and the thumb.

     THAT really annoying spot where mosquito REALLY KEEP FINDING TO BITE YOU.
Touta Konoe     Greg is immensely annoyed. No matter what happens this fight he can at least say he pissed off a Gilgamesh to some degree and that seems to be satisfactory for him. Anything else at this point will just be gravy. Though truth be told he is a bit surprised to see Greg holding onto his gravity blade so non-chalantly. That's a damn heavy sword he's got here, and for him to be yanking it from Touta well...You get the picture. Though Touta seems pretty alright just releasing the blade as well as he gets bopped in the nose. He knocks him back but...

    Touta's quick to continue following Seifer's script, and even worse. Greg's now holding a sword that's literally reciting the same script as well. Is he sure he wants to hold onto that? Well it's irrelevant for Touta cause he appears to leave his sword hanging.

    Once again, Touta uses shundo and uses that increase speed to get on the goliath's shoulder. He continues chanting the script right into Greg's ear before the cheeky immortal decides to throw a roundhouse into the overgrown Gilgamesh's head. Of course seeing now that this guy is able to handle his sword with no problem, Touta knows he honestly doesn't have to hold back in the slightest and can just slap him with all the monsterous strength this vampire has stored up in this teenage body.
Tomoe Tomoe doesn't miss no, Gil is just that good at parrying as he intercepts and soon she finds a blad coming right for her face. She's forced to try and parry herself, she's lucky it didn't take her head off. She sees a glimmer of the terrifying skill that Greg has. The biggest question is? Where did he learn to do this?

Greg still gets her pretty good. The force o the impact as she counters parries actually /hurts/ her. What kind of melee monster is this guy? She knows it's time to stop fooling around in any sense of the word.

She'll channel magic into her blade. Dawn Breaker burns white as she will hover off the ground for a moment.

"AINCRAD BLITZ!"

She twists and turns streaking in to attack Greg some more calling out.

"Hey Greg do you know where I can get a copy of the movie that Seifer is telling us about?!"
Sarracenia      Sarra calls this Gilgamesh a fake, and gets called a fake in return! This hurts almost as much as the giant sword that comes swinging down at her!

     That at least seems more Gilgamesh-like compared to the other Gilgamesh. It takes Sarracenia a few moments to drag herself weakly out of the crater left by the sword impact. "...okay, perhaps you are not a fake." she says, coughing a bit. She may be able to hit hard, but she likewise doesn't take the hits very well. Still, she reaches into her purse and pulls out her DK Hammer. "Because I am definitely a real princess!!" she exclaims as she charges and leaps, aiming to smash that hammer right into one of Gilgamesh's knees.
Terra      Terra's is expertly dodged, and Tomoe's attack is redirected. The keyblade knight removes his weapon from the ground with alarming speed, the blade flexing and warping as it becomes more whip than sword.

     The newly formed whip is flicked once more, the elastic blade flailing around him erratically as it knocks Tomoe's redirected blade out of the air. It wasn't a skillful parry, more it was wan performed with sheer brute force.

     "Gilgamesh is right. Enough. Enough about Sorceresses. Those are the past, this is the present."

     There's something that could be called annoyance in Terra's voice. Perhaps even ANGER. It's faint, like it's slowly building up, but it's there. At least the grey giant can take solace in the fact that he isn't the only one being driven up a wall by Seifer and Touta's antics.

     There's a huff from the armored Nobody as he pulls back on the whip, the blade retracting to its usual length for a brief moment before the 'keyblade' begins reforming again. The guard and blade warp and shift in unusual, somewhat unnatural ways until they've formed what's clearly the body of a bow, which now rests in Terra's hands as it aims it at Gilgamesh.

     There's no visible bowstring to draw back on, but they mirror the motions anyway, an arrow of light being fed into the weapon. When he let's go, it fires, flying true towards the target's center of mass.

     He disappears after he fires, only to reappear again shortly after from a different angle, his bow reloaded only to be fired again, this time from the side.
Seifer Almasy      "I AM NOT DOING CRIMES," Gilgamesh shouts, "I AM SUMMONING MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WORLD, OTHER THAN THAT GREEN CHICKEN AND THAT ANNOYING BLONDE GUY,"

     Seifer waves.

     "AND THAT'S NOT A CRIME IT'S JUST FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP ISN'T A CRIME, IT'S PROBABLY MAGI-"

     Gilgamesh starts wobbling in between the spheres. He's actually really good at it. "HEY! I'VE DONE THIS BEFORE, YOU CAN'T-"

     Whoops. One of them takes off part of his side. It's really gross-looking, because there's *NOTHING THERE*. Just...energy, and...and energy. Nothing under the skin. Gilgamesh looks down. He looks up. He looks down. He looks up again.

     "Rude."

     Arkae drives a cut into his side. It hits his armor, digging into that open wound. Gilgamesh grunts, a big, loud grunt of pain.

     And then he picks up a positron cannon.

     Wait, a wha-

     PYEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWMMMM! The beam just *screams* across the Big Bridge, centered on I4 but liable to hit Arkae, too, and anybody stupid enough to just stand there.

     The poison immediately starts working. Greg stumbles, awkwardly. He grabs at his side.

     Seifer, meanwhile, continues narrating. "'They will take our people. They will burn what they cannot take, and leave our home a broken wreck. I have no choice but to stand.' Ayaka stands. She looks out the window. 'It will be alright. I have faith.'"

     The positron cannon is discarded. Link bows out, and Gilgamesh bows too. "Okay, thanks for coming, it was nice to meet you-OW!" Tetra jams the blade up his ass, and he goes flying into the air like a cartoon character, his feet running in thin air as he shrieks. He crashes right into Alruna, whose spear goes right through him as he falls, and he hits the ground, impaled.

     He looks down at it. He looks up at her. "Excuse me but you seem to have placed your spear in my chest."

     He grabs at her face, moving to smash it into her spear and knock her for a loop as he stands.

     Staren finds himself surrounded not by fried chicken, but by a flock of angry, burned birds. The birds flutter in front of him, eyes empty, staring with black malice. Their feathers are certainly burned black, but they are most assuredly not dead. Oh no. They're a raid mechanic.

     The chickens turn and swarm around Staren, sweeping down onto the party and screeching high-pitched BUKAWS!

     Seifer continues. "We zoom out the window to Luthiox, and its rolling, industrial cityscape, full of black towers and red lights and smog. Here, a man is training. He's tall, dressed in a coat. His hair is black. His gunblade is long and slender, with a pistol-grip rather than a sword-grip. He's fighting against another man, a soldier in armor with a similar blade. This is Zefar, the subtitle says."

     Arcadia's claws lash out at the giant grey man. She gets in five good cuts before he reaches out. "GOT YOU!" he says, moving to grab her by the leg and just slam her into the ground with all his strength. Amelris's blade drives into Gilgamesh's index and thumb just as he finishes the arc, and he yelps, angrily. One of his other hands moves up to uppercut Amelris. "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT FLEA MARKETS HAVE MANY EXCELLENT DEALS IN STORE AND YOU CAN FIND MANY QUALITY ITEMS THERE, AND IT'S EXTREEMLY RUDE OF YOU TO USE IT AS AN INSULT, *WARRIOR OF LOSE!* HAH! SEE WHAT I DID! I CALLED YOU A WARRIOR OF *LOSE*."
Seifer Almasy      Touta roundhouses him.

     He goes *flying* into the Blitz. It leaves a long magical cut across him, and he tumbles off the Big Bridge, falling as his arms flail. Seifer looks over the side, unconcerned.

     "Zefar's gunblade clashes against the helmeted guy. Another guy comes running in from behind, but Zefar blocks over his shoulder easily. This is the first look we get at his face. He's got an easy, cocksure grin and bright green eyes. 'Gotta try better than that!'"

     Gilgamesh suddenly just goes flying up, landing in a squat with enough force to blow people back from him. Sarra comes running up to smash him in the knees, and he stumbles, falling right towards her, his huge bulk threatening to crush her under it.

     "Well."

     "Excuse me, Princess."

     As he gets up, Terra hits him in the chest. He goes skidding back, hitting the side of the bridge again. Seifer ducks the incoming shot around him, letting it whoosh past him as Gilgamesh takes it in the side and goes sliding that way, too.

     Gilgamesh stands again.

     "ALRIGHT! I'VE HAD IT! NO MORE MISTER NICE GIL! IT'S TIME FOR A *PHASE CHANGE!*"

     Four swords hit the ground. One is red. One is blue. One is yellow. One is white. They dig in so deep it's hard to step around them, cracking the bricks of the bridge. The four blades rip themselves free, hovering around him.

     "I've chosen the blade charge tetrad for the likes of you."

     Seifer, ignoring that he's annoying Terra (or not giving a shit, more likely), says, "Zefar smashes his gunblade upwards and disarms the first guy, then whirls around to point it up the other guy's jaw. The two soldiers drop their weapons and surrender. Zefar laughs and shoulders his blade. 'Not bad, Brume. Not good enough yet..' Brume removes his helmet, a shock of spiky red hair emerging. 'I'm working on it! I did better this time, right? Huh, Zefar?'"

     Gilgamesh chuckles, ominously, as the blades pick up speed. He hasn't done anything with them yet. But they sure do look...

     Troublesome.
Arkae Zellar Arkae looks up. "Hey, that doesn't look like a sword, that looks like a-"

PYEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWM

"Ow."

"... Hey, wait," says the mildly crispy tengu. "You're just trying to get your friend back?"

She looks over at Seifer, then back to Gilgamesh. "I mean, I only really took a swing at you because you were literally inviting me, but like... if you're doing all this for a friend, and you're friends with Seifer, then you can't be all that bad, right?"
Arkae Zellar Arkae gets some clarification from Seifer via the radio.

"Oh! Okay. Because you're bored. Well luckily I have a potion just for making someone's life more lively!"

She pulls one out and chucks it overhand towards his face (it's alchemists fire).
Ishirou If I4's eyes were not covered by what looks like a cloth tied around his head, they'd be big as saucers as the beam is pointed at him.  Energy travels hellafast, unless it doesn't.  He moves to dive out of the way, taking the edge of the beam in the back and causing burns up his body.  Hitting the ground hard, his pain suppression system kicks in.

It goes from 'screaming in agony' to 'ow'.  

Flipping back to his feet with a wince and a grimace on his face, he looks at Seifer.  "This is a good story," he comments, before pointing to his POD.

"Missiles," he says, with an edge to his voice, before the POD's head opens up.  Micromissiles start swarming out towards Gregamesh, aiming to explode him while he gets into a potential compromising scene with Sarracenia.  

"Also summoning entities that drain the world of life, even if they are your friend, is illegal.  I'm sorry."
Amelris Belthrone      "I agree, flea markets are great! You're just the kind of guy that waits in a dark corner looking over the swords someone selling and badgering them all day until they lower their prices just so you go awa--"

     VerUppercut.

     The Miqo'te flies off from the katana, making a wonderful arc before thudding nastily on his back against the bricks. He gasps out, air knocked straight out of him as he scrambles to get it back, staggering to a knee. Looks like the WARRIOR OF LOSE comment will go /uncountered/ at this moment!

     "Ahn broddy herr." Amelris comments, holding his jaw with one hand, rubbing it as he stands back up. "Ah bet mah 'wung oh weeze ee beeiing." The Miqo'te lets out, spitting out a small gop of blood down at the ground, staring at the spinning blades. Eyes looks up at the skies. Eyes falls down at the spinning blades.

     He frowns. Well, it's not a balanced attack but he can afford to go on one side a bit harder this time around.

     He squeezes the floating gem with one hand, thrusting it out.

     "VER'HUN'ER."

     A crashing streak of lightning is called down on the weapons -- and Gilgamesh himself -- as we all know metal is /generally/ conductive.

     His rapier is swung up, gem flying to it's handle as he echoes.

     "VER'HUN'ER!"

     This time, a larger streak of lightning in a larger area comes crashing down all around, trying to make it VERY difficult for Gilgamesh to keep doing what he's doing.
Alruna Greengate Gilgamesh manages to cushion Alruna's landing. Oh good.

Her spear goes the whole way through him and smashing into the bridge, jolting Alruna uncomfortably, but hey, that could have gone a lot worse than it did. Her smiling face gets covered with a massive grey hand and smashed into her spear's haft with a painful 'ow'. Gilgamesh throws her off - the only thing that saves her from falling through one of the bridge's crenels into the valley beneath is her spear *clack*ing against the merlons on both sides. She falls to the ground, the particle beam scything overhead.

After a brief fit of coughing, the lancer bounces up onto her feet. Not as spryly as she would be bare-handed, but the kip-up onto her feet is still pretty good. "It's super-illegal." she supplements for I4, pausing next to him. "How are you seeing with that?" she wonders, as Gilgamesh starts yelling again.

Her eyes shift from sword to sword, narrowing as they pick up speed. The air next to I4 whiffs as Alruna lunges in, using her longer reach with the spear to stab past the swords. Jab! Jab! Jabby jab jab!
Touta Konoe     Touta's able to get a very satisfying kick in against Gilgamesh. He's probably just gotten rid of a lot of stress from the last time. He should see if Seifer's willing to let Greg out more often. Questions for later though. It was time for action, and boy was there action. After watching Greg nearly slam into Sarra, he watches the anomaly begin to spin swords all around him like he was the storm of a kind of sword hurricane. They continue to get faster and faster and the smile on Greg's face doesn't exactly make it look like this is could get nasty quick. So maybe it might be a good time to try and return Greg to where he belongs...But how do you do that?

    Well watching the others continue their own onslaught of attacks Touta only has one idea..."Maaaan, this is gonna suck..."

    He takes a deep breath regardless though, preparing himself for what's likely to come. He taps the ground with his shoes making sure they were secure, and then lowers into a running stance. He dashes out towards Greg and the swords just as the rest of the lightning finishes coming down. He shundos towards Greg and his blades, trying his best to and maneuver past them to get into the eye of the 'storm' where Greg resides. Though even if he does get cut into little bits, he's immortal and has a great healing factor so...YOLO?

    Once he make it inside though was another issue, his plan was simple...Greg's fifteen feet tall and Touta's waaaay smaller than that. So he's gonna try and find a spot where he can't be easily grabbed at, grab at Greg, use his monster strength to Mario throw Greg like he's Bowser towards Seifer and see if they might merge back. And if they don't well...I'm sure Seifer can figure out how to deal with it right?
Arcadia Holy hell -again- this guy is able to grab onto her despite her insane speed and agility! He may not be the Gilgamesh she's heard stories about but he's definately not a slouch in a fight either.

The sphinx is grabbed and flung away from offending Greg's person, though this time she's able to open her wings back up and catch herself before she's slammed into the ground again.

As she turns her attention back to the imposing grey man her visor flickers, the HUD on her side spewing out a few strings of runic text and directing her focus to the spinning, encircling blades. It's tracking the pattern in their rotation, when a blade is or is not passing in front of him at from various vectors, even as their speed is increasing. Arcadia smirks, just enough for the fang to show on one side. "That's a neat trick... You want to see one of mine?"

Arcadia engages several of her magitek bits, the small devices dislodging from her back and whirling about her briefly before speeding off. Instead they arrange themselves around Gilgagreg and his spinning swords at various angles and heights. They start firing at various patterns of their own with jolts of lightning, trying to sync as many shots between the rotating swords as she can.
Staren     This is personal now.

    While the Enkuccoos screech at the party, Staren starts shooting THEM. He'll take them out one at a time if needed! Lasers, beams, explosives... he will reduce the ability of the swarm to interfere in this battle!

    And then a POSITRON BEAM blasts past. The part of Staren's shield facing it flickers and melts away a bit.

    Staren recognizes the signature instantly.

    "Get away! Look out for the lightning!" He flees directly away from the beam, expecting an attack that...

    ...Doesn't come.

    He turns on Gilgamesh and starts shouting. "Come on, who uses a positron cannon in atmosphere and doesn't follow it up with a proper lightning blast? It's basically a freebie, like an electrolaser but SO much more nasty!"

    Arcadia's taking advantage of the synergy with her own lightning, though! Staren waves a hand in her direction, "See?! SHE knows!"
Sarracenia      Sarracenia grins as she knocks Gilgamesh's leg out from under him...but that grin fades quickly as he just comes toppling down on her as a result. There is an audible 'OOF!' from the princess as she is squished beneath his bulk, and when he gets up and excuses himself the princess is left crushed into the ground in her very own Sarracenia-shaped crater. She is looking very battered and bruised by now, and even the prongs of her crown are a bit displaced after that. "Mmmph..." She struggles to sit up until she finally pops free of the ground.

     "...I suppose you are excused, given it was my course of attack. But, I hope you are planning to compensate me for my ruined spa day!" she says as she dusts herself off.

     Then she looks at those swords flying around Gilgamesh. She peers at them, not liking the look of them. She gets an idea, and reaches into her purse to pull out...a person-sized bullet with a shark-like face! She tosses it up before twirling quickly in place, and as it comes down she hammers it on the flat, firing it like she was an artillery piece. She aims for those swords rather than Gilgamesh himself, aiming so that it should intercept the orbits of the swords. She does this three more times, and three more Bullet Bills go screaming through the air. "I do not know what you are trying to do, but taking all the aether of this land in order to bring your friend back cannot be allowed!"
Tetra     As if by a siren's call, Gilgamesh's 'excuse me' catches Tetra's ear. Her pointed ears perk.

    Red, blue, white, yellow... this must mean something. Elements? A puzzle? Hmm. Tera has to think fast.

    She leaps again, bounding off a pillar to get herself in position to launch a barrage of ice crystals against the white blade. Hopefully, this is color /matching/, not color-opposing. She's putting herself dangerously close to her target, after all...
Tomoe Tomoe catches Gilgamesh mid-air and sends him falling off the big bridge for a moment. The fight keeps going and then the topic of flea markets come up.

"I love flea market you can find all sorts of really old video games and other collectables at them! Sometimes the sellers don't even click to how much they can be worth!"

THen Amelris brings up about the sort of guy Gilgamesh would be at a flea market.

"Geeze your right Amelris!"

She will get in close again this time as she chases down Greg shear the words phase change.

There is a look of understanding as she skids to a halt.

"Oh hell."

She'll track what he's doing she sees four blades in the bridge now, when a boss in SAO dropped something like this the best idea was to take them out before whatever effect they were behind would go off.

Well if that were possible it could be some sort of shield too from the looks of it, she'll keep her distance for a moment. She will have to follow Arcadia's example and time her attack between the blade,s she will start with chanting, runes dance about her and when she finishes she starts letting lose bolts of light trying to time the shots to get past the blade and hit Gil.

"Just what kind of Phase change has the mighty Gilgamesh cooked up here?!"
Terra      Gilgamesh is sent reeling back from one of Terra's shots, which seems to satisfy them enough. The bow they were handing twists and melds.

     Rather than taking it's proper form again though, it does something different. The weapon gets larger, bulkier, to the point where Terra's slinging the growing weapon over his shoulder to accommodate the size and weight of it though.

     Once it finishes shifting, it's quite clear. Between the barrel and absolute size of the weapon, it's a cannon. A cannon that would be better suited being mounted onto some sort of vehicle, but despite it's cumbersome appearance, they seem to be handling it fine.

     There's a gentle thrum from the weapon as it gathers magic. Gathers energy. It's not fired yet though, possibly because it needs time to power up, or maybe. Just maybe, Terra is waiting for Gilgamesh to perform his attack first.
Seifer Almasy      Seifer cheats and tells Arkae what she needs to know before Gilgamesh can punch her. She throws alchemist's fire in his face. He shouts, loudly, and goes running around again. "HEY! THAT HURTS! THAT REALLY HURTS! Ow, who just HAS FIRE to throw at somebody! Fine, then!"

     "FIGHTER!"

     The red sword suddenly shoots at Arkae like a missile, blazing a Tron-line trail of red. It goes straight for her chest, spiralling towards her at speeds that are frankly furiously illegal.

     I4's missiles come. Gilgamesh grabs one of his discarded weapons off the ground and starts cutting through them, but there's just *way* too much. The missiles get around him, one by one, hitting him in the chest. It's a cascade failure until he shouts, "THIEF!"

     The blue sword goes shooting upwards. Missiles just...disappear. Vanishing into thin air. Then it turns and points at I4 and POD.

     And the missiles come *right* back, streaking outwards. Seifer sort of just casually knocks them aside from himself and POD, since they're not in this raid and can't be targetted. Obviously. I4, though, he's on his own. Seifer continues his narration lazily.

     "Brume and Zefar go down through the halls. They're black, lit with red. Luthiox is obviously not a great place. Brume is excited. 'So I heard they're sending us to Elthane. The Elthanian government declared war on us! Isn't that crazy? But they have the Sorceress, so...'"

     Amelris brings down the thunder. Literally. Gilgamesh starts dancing in between the bolts, hollering as they hit him in the head, in the arm, in the shoulder, in the sword. Alruna joins in with a quick couple of Warrior-of-Light jabs and stabs, driving Gilgamesh back into more of the lightning. Gilgamesh waves his arms around furiously as he crackles.

     "B-BLACK MAGE!"

     The yellow sword straightens. It starts charging.

     A flare pours out of the sky onto Alruna and Amelris, a massive bolt of light from the heavens just screaming down to dig into the Big Bridge and possibly blow them up in the process.

     Touta grabs him by the leg. He is yeeted towards Seifer with all the force of an angry vampire.

     Seifer ducks.

     Gilgamesh keeps sailing over the side. Seifer looks back over his shoulder. "'So what? It's just one woman. She might be strong,' Zefar says, clapping Brume on the shoulder, 'But we're stronger. We won't let that kind of evil win.' They march through the halls until they reach the quarters of Commander Sid. He looks up from his desk. 'Zefar,' he says, 'We're deploying you and your team, effective immediately. You'll be making a deep strike into Elthanian territory. We're going to try and grab the Sorceress before she can be deployed.'"

     "WHITE MAGE!"

     The white sword goes shooting over the side. It raises Gilgamesh up as he dangles off it by two hands. Green light pours over him, slowly healing his wounds. "Ha ha ha ha! Aren't you amazed by my treasures?! Aren't you fascinated by my amazing-"

     Lightning hits him in the face again. He almost slips and falls back into the ravine, but the White Mage sword shoots forward, dragging him into a rough landing that has him rolling forward. "WHUUF!"

     He dusts himself off as he stands. "My AMAZING Blade Charge Tetrad? AND THIS ISN'T EVEN ALL OF THEM! HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

     Staren lectures him about positron cannons. Gilgamesh turns and looks at him.

     He picks up the positron cannon again.

     PYEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWM!

     "BLACK MAGE!"

     The yellow sword points at Staren and blasts at him with lightning in the wake of the cannon, exactly as he said he should. Gilgamesh tosses the gun over his shoulder and turns look at Sarracenia. The bullet bill goes shooting up towards the four swords, exploding and sending them scattering apart, and knocking Gilgamesh back down again. "STOP DOING THAT! I'M THE ONE WHO'S SUPPOSED TO KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN! THE OTHER WAY AROUND ISN'T FUN!"
Seifer Almasy      Tetra's crystals freeze over the white blade. It clatters to the ground. "Hey! HEY! NO! I NEED THAT TO CURE STATUS EFFECTS!"

     "Grrrr!"

     Seifer, meanwhile, says, "Zefar departs with Brume. It's a long way to Elthane. But mostly, we get to cut through that, with a long, extended-camera walking sequence. He and Brume are chatting on the way, close friends. Meanwhile, we get to see Ayaka and Kaya as Ayaka prepares to go to deliver a speech. Her voiceover is laid over Zefar's journey, with her face transparencies."

     "YES FLEA MARKETS ARE REALLY GOOD," Gilgamesh shouts, "I'M GLAD WE ALL AGREE ON THIS BASIC FACT-"

     The bolt of light clubs him again, and he gets knocked down. He flails furiously. "STOP DOING THAT! FIGHTER!"

     Again, the red blade goes shooting for Tomoe. It's stupid fast. Midway through, it seems to triple itself, moving to carve through her three times at once as Gilgamesh pulls himself to his feet once again.

     He snaps his fingers. "Warriors of Light!"

     The four blades shoot up into the sky, the ice breaking off the white one in an instant. They begin circling overhead.

     "ECHO OF CHAOS!"

     The four blades shoot away in each cardinal direction. Then, four attacks come sweeping in as the blades dive-bomb the party.

     The first is a massive burst of flames, like a jet fighter's bombs. They go off in a line towards Gilgamesh, who, suddenly realizing that he's in the path of his own attack, yelps and starts running away.

     From the other side, the blue sword comes shooting downwards. A massive wave rolls up along the bridge, a huge tidal wave, a tsunami of raw force. Gilgamesh starts running to the east, but from there, the yellow sword comes, a cyclone whirling through, the clouds growing dark above it. He goes to the west, and there the white sword jams itself into the ground, and the whole bridge starts to shake.

     "WHY DID I THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Arkae Zellar "Oh that-"

The fighter sword Sephiroths straight through Arkae, pinning her to the ground. "..."

"... Sucks."

It's not until the fighter sword is recalled that Arkae's able to pull herself back up, coughing up a bit of blood from her beak. "Healing potion, healing potion..." she mutters to herself as she fumbles around in her portable interdimensional space. "Healing potion- oh-"

She gets it stuck in her beak just in time. The fire starts, then the water, the wind, and then the whole bridge-

"Okay, have fun with that!" calls Arkae, who decides its past time to get lost. She heads back towards the far end of the bridge at speed.
Alruna Greengate Alruna gawps at the light opening up above her head. Then she vanishes in an explosion of fire and energy.

When it clears, she's dressed in plate mail again. Smoking, clinking plate mail and shield raised overhead. She pants, lowering said shield. Huffing, Alruna sheathes her sword and charges at Gilgamesh. Smoke drifts off her, smelling of burnt hair, as she leaps up at Gilgamesh's face, hands outstretched.

Swinging from his flamboyant clothing, Alruna tries to climb up and get her thighs around his neck so she can crush it like a watermelon, beating on his head with her armoured gauntlets while she does so.
Ishirou Missiles go from his control to NOT his control.  Thief?!  What the heck does that mean?!  Wait, they're not his missiles anymore?  Oh.

I4's mind runs a million miles an hour in a short amount of time before he gets an idea.  His hand shoots out in front of him, as balls of energy fly everywhere.  A HACKING bar starts to fill up under I4 as he quickly fills it and attempts to bring the missiles back under his control.

This is all while I4 is bounced around the arena, trying to perform the mechanicals correctly.  Instead of brutally damaged, he is very wet, slightly burnt, sizzling, and just narrowly on his feet.  

"GO!" He shouts before all of the missiles turn towards Gilgamesh.  And then fly at him in a single wave, instead of in a stream.
Terra      Gilgamesh launches his ultimate attack. In hindsight, firing sooner rather than later was probably the better move. But it was the proper, warrior thing to do. Or at least, that's what he remembers.

     The cannon continues building up power, the barrel spinning as a bright white light begins building up in the center. He plants his feet firmly as he braces to fire, though he begins blinking in and out of existence to avoid the attack.

     It's not a perfect way to avoid the attack, the fire still burns him no matter how fast he blinks away, singing his armor black and causing his cape to smolder. Luckily it doesn't seem to catch fire though despite all this, given that it's made to take extreme temperatures.

     Appearing one last time once he's pretty sure the attack is (mostly) over, Terra grabs unto the cannon firmly with both arms, the barrel expanding as it finally unleashes its payload.

     A beam of pure white. A beam so powerful that even a strong Nobody like Terra is sent skidding back from the recoil, his eyes squinting underneath his helmet as the white threatens to blind him. It's not even really aimed anywhere specific at Gilgamesh. It's just aimed /AT/ him. There's no need for accuracy, or anything fancy. It's just a weapon that's final goal is to level everything pointed in front of it.
Arcadia Everything is going well and good up until Gilgamesh sends the swords hurtling into the sky overhead, which sends the magitek funnels scattering. A few that were hovering low and knocked into the bridge and shatter. The rest default to standby and zip around erratically to collect back around Arcadia so she can stow them.

The red sword swoops in discharging a streak of flames. The sphinx jumps and twirls in the air to avoid the blazing bombardment, cackling as she uprights herself in a hover once more. "Come on! All that build up and that's the best you can do?"

Except it's while she's taunting that the blue sword's wave rises up behind her, which she doesn't notice until it casts a shadow over her. She turns her head just enough to look up and behind her, and despite their mechanical look her ears lay back flat in the same distressed look as any other cat's would as she realizes she can't fly up and away from it because it's higher than she is.

There was probably some cussing at that but the wave crashes down on top of her and drowns (ha ha ha) it out. The sphinx wasn't standing on the bridge so it's easy to sweep her off her feet, throw her around violently a bit, and toss her over the opposite side. Followed by a few rough bounces off the side of the bridge and it's supports before she finally fires her magitek thrusters and launchs herself out of the watery cascade just before being slung into the gourge below.

By the time she flies back up to the top of the bridge the lightning phase has passed, and being in the air the one hitting the surface to make it shake is mostly loud and annoying.

"I guess it's time for the Big Finale Phases, huh?" It takes a few moments for her visor's tracking function to lock back onto Gilgamesh amist the chaotic aftermath of his attacks. Her wings spread and she holds out her arms as -numerous- magitek ports open both in her armor and in the air around her.

"Magic... Missile... MASSACRE!"

Untold hundreds of magitek micromissiles erupt from the arcane arpetures. Some hurtle straight towards Gilgamesh, while others swerve to the sides and then swerve back to come at him from those angles. A few even actually arc past, then turn and come hurtling in from behind. Doesn't matter what vector they come from, when they hit they detonate in small bursts of magic energy.

Just that there's SO MANY of them even just half of those small explosions are going to start adding up.

And like their spell counterparts their homing enchantment avoids hitting allies, so no friendly fire incidents!
Staren     Staren dives out of the way of the direct beam, his forcefield flickers out just from being NEAR it, though. As he turns to fire his own particle beam back at Gilgamesh, though, this time he gets LIGHTNING'D by a sword! Damn it, since when are his enemies smart enough to take his advice.

    Blackened and smoking, Staren dives off the bridge for cover.

    And then missiles fly up from underneath it to harass Gilgamesh, because dammit, Staren's not quitting just yet!
Tomoe Tomoe Says "I will not stop doing that! You can't make me Greg."

Her tactic to try to get Greg to spill the beans on the phase doesn't go well. No, but she's going to find out pretty fast as Gilgamesh now moves to enact the phase. It's pretty epic Tomoe would have to admit she's also starting to flee, barely avoiding being interacted by the blasts of the first one. Worse still there's more there's a tidal wave coming, she'll flare out her wings and start flying along banishing her weapon to her inventory a second before she swoops in and attempts to grab Sarra and carry her away as she will fly to the side to get away from the tidal wave rather than running from it directly. She will try to land somewhere safe after the wave is done its thing. Though hopefully with Sarra along for the ride.
Tetra     Oh. Huh. She was wrong. But that's okay! Ice is still useful, apparently. "Doesn't 'tetrad' mean four? How can you have more than that?"

    She WOULD try to be clever some more, but Greg pulls out something new and unexpected. She manages to dodge the flames--tipped off by Gilgamesh's shock at being hoisted--but takes the brunt of the tsunami, tossed backward a couple hundred feet. She has to take a moment as the water recedes, coughing up a lungful of water. "Ugh. Shit." She wrings out her hair and pulls her bow off her back. She nocks an arrow, this one glimmering with a formidable aura of frost, wisps of steam rolling off the head.

    She takes aim... and fires. The arrow arcs over the bridge toward Gilgamesh, coming up well short of her target.

    Or perhaps not. Where the arrow lands, an ephemeral column of ice erupts from the ground. Then another just forward of it, as the first crumbles. The columns chain off of each other toward Gilgamesh. Tetra, meanwhile, looks... exceptionally chilly. She was soaking wet--but now she's covered in frost, shivering. She cups her hands in front of her, struggling for a moment to light a small magical fire to warm her hands. That took a bit out of her.
Amelris Belthrone      This is not great, not gonna lie.

     Amelris looks up with a frown, his slightly bloodied mouth opening wider at the burst, flare of light. Without a word, he dive forward into a roll, launched away by the flare of light from the heavens. He tumbles and crash accross the VERY LARGE SPAN, grunting and wincing all the way. He skids over all the way to the very end of the sides, holding his head. A yelp escapes his lips as he start to realize things are not as /firm/ as he thought they'd be.

     The Warrior of Light scrambles to his feet, tail flailing behind him as he charges straight at Gilgamesh. It seems to be about time to finish this nonsense!

     "THAT'S RIGHT! FLEA MARKETS ARE VERY USEFUL AND NICE TO HAVE IN A COMMUNITY!" Amelris screams out, his rapier glowing bright as he dives against the giant sword man, deftly swinging once, then dashing past him to slice on his way past.

     "IT'S JUST YOU HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT SPEND TIME OF THEIR DAY TO PUT UP OLD THINGS THEY DON'T NEED ANYMORE SO THAT WE MAY HAVE THE CHANCE TO BUY THEM. IT'S ALL ABOUT RESPECT IN THE COMMUNITY!"

     Then, to culminate it all up, the Red Mage thrust his enhanced weapon into some of the CARDBOARD ARMS then backflip right away from the impact....

     Periliously close to the edge.
Sarracenia      Sarracenia ends up running practically alongside Gilgamesh as the waves of different attacks come rolling across the bridge. "Why DID you?!" she demands as they run. Unlike Gilgamesh though, Sarra has -good- friends. Her lady-in-waiting, Tomoe, comes by to carry Sarra into the air.

     At which point Sarra remembers she has power-ups that let her fly. She blinks before pulling a cute raccoon-like plushie from her purse. She squeezes it, then in a puff of white smoke she is clad in...a full body furry raccoon suit that only leaves her face visible. "Thank you, Lady Tomoe. I believe I can handle it from here, though." she says, smiling to Tomoe.

     Once released, Sarra's suit's raccoon tail starts wagging to keep her aloft. She looks down at the bridge, then sticks her tongue out at Gilgamesh. "Serves you right!"
Seifer Almasy      "IT WAS AN ACCIDENT" Gilgamesh howls at Sarracenia. He's so busy running he forgot the punctuation.

     Finally, it's over. Arkae bails. Gilgamesh waves goodbye. Alruna takes the opportunity to put her thighs around his meaty neck, and starts punching him in the head. "HEY!" Gilgamesh shouts, "NOT ON THE FIRST DATE! ...SECOND DATE! I'M A CLASSY GENTLEMAN, YOU KNOW!" He just falls backwards in a classic wrestling move that the narrator doesn't know or care to know the name of, using his weight to try and drop her into the bridge.

     Tetra's arrow lands right in front of him. "HAH! You miiiiiIIIIIII-!"

     He's bumped upwards by the chain of ice. I4 takes the opportunity to blast him with a massive wave of missiles, and they send him up, up, up into the sky. The magitek missiles and Staren's own swarm join in pushing him further and further, until he turns into a star in the distance. The cannon follows him upwards, blowing a hole in the clouds. He is...very, very gone.

     Until he falls back into the Big Bridge and hits it with the force of meteor. Chunks of tile go flying everywhere. Stone bricks go upwards, then down. Seifer lazily knocks some of them away from himself and POD.

     And then Greg goes over the side as Amelris jabs him in his very real shoulder.

     He just kinda falls, and keeps falling, and keeps falling. When he jumps back up and lands this time, he stands there for a moment before the weapons all just sort of vanish.

     "Alright, I'm satisfied. Nice fight, thanks."

     Seifer walks over and grabs Gilgamesh by the shoulder. "Alright. We did what you wanted to do. Now you're gonna take me to those buddies of yours and I'm gonna clean them out of every single Triad card they own."

     "Oh, come on, I'm no good at Triad," Gilgamesh mutters as they walk away. He looks over his shoulder and waves. "NICE MEETING YOU! BYE!"

     "Yeah, well, that octopus and that cloud are gonna get cleaned the heck out. Gotta shore up Caster's deck for that tourney. My girl's bringing home the *prize*. And there's gotta be a victim in a highway robbery."

     "Ultros is gonna be really mad."

     "Sucks to be him!" Seifer slaps the big grey giant on the back. "Get a move on, moron."

     The green chicken looks at the party. It looks around, then goes, BAKAW. Black eyes settle on Staren. There's an ominous twinkle.

     Then it wanders off to follow the two.